[LostinTime987]

To make a long story short, I hit the right side of my forehead on a glass wall while looking down at my phone a month and a half ago. The first month was excruciating but my headaches, earaches, and other symptoms are lessening everyday. I'm starting to feel more and more like myself again slowly but surely. I've been trying to eat healthy and staying hydrated along with taking vitamins everyday. Even my "emotional flatness" is going away a little...I am smiling, laughing, and more talkative. The only problem is that I'm still not literally "feeling" any emotions. I don't feel the adrenaline, guilt, empathy, happiness bursts, etc., that I used to feel before the injury. The emotional highs and lows seem to have gone away. I don't find pleasure in nature, etc., as I used to. Or, for example, I'll find something funny and I'll laugh, but I don't physically feel uplifted inside as I used to when I laughed. I know it may not sound like it makes sense. I started seeing a therapist this week and she suggested I start taking an antidepressant soon. She was actually insistent that I start, because she thinks my serotonin and dopamine levels are out of balance. She said I must have damaged that aspect of my brain and if I stay on meds for the next 3-6 months then my brain will "relearn" how to produce emotions.

I don't know though - what do you guys suggest? What if I start taking meds and then after I stop them, I fall back into emotional flatness except worse off than before? And will antidepressants even give me back my emotions? I used to be extremely passionate and emotional/creative before my injury.

I was thinking about getting an MRI done to see if maybe there was nerve damage or something... my CT scan last month showed no bleeding or swelling. However, I didn't get an MRI done yet. Someone please give me advice =/